Tom Kompas
@tkompas.bsky.social
Professor of Biosecurity and Environmental Economics, CEBRA, University of Melbourne; Climate Change Modelling; Eureka Science Prize; FASSA. 🌎😷
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Tom Kompas
@tkompas.bsky.social
· Dec 16
The severe losses in GDP by country as a result of Climate Change at 3.4 degrees (graphic). Total global damages over $610 TRILLION to 2100, or a COVID sized economic shock *every year* on average for the next 80 years. END FOSSIL FUELS NOW! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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I, along with 30 co-authors from 20 different countries, just had published a Perspective in Nature Sustainability entitled 'Rethinking responses to the world's water crises'. It's available in the link below:
www.nature.com/articles/s41... .
www.nature.com/articles/s41... .
Rethinking responses to the world’s water crises - Nature Sustainability
Efforts to address the water challenges that societies face are hindered by a lack of funding and ineffective implementation, as well as poor understanding of the causes. Adopting a beyond growth fram...
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December 20, 2024 at 5:36 AM
I, along with 30 co-authors from 20 different countries, just had published a Perspective in Nature Sustainability entitled 'Rethinking responses to the world's water crises'. It's available in the link below:
www.nature.com/articles/s41... .
www.nature.com/articles/s41... .
A new Nature Sustainability paper out today. 30 co-authors from 20 different countries. 'Rethinking responses to the world's water crises' … url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/yliZCXLKNw...
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December 10, 2024 at 6:27 AM
A new Nature Sustainability paper out today. 30 co-authors from 20 different countries. 'Rethinking responses to the world's water crises' … url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/yliZCXLKNw...
McKinsey paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies!
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
McKinsey paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies
Guardian Australia was told firm disclosed its private sector work, but it is not known which clients were listed
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:10 PM
McKinsey paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies!
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sums it up nicely: Bill McGuire: “Smoke and mirrors: 37 bt out of 40 bt tonnes of CO2 emitted in 2023 due to burning FFs, but - like every COP beforehand - @COP29 pretends this isn't happening.”
November 23, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Sums it up nicely: Bill McGuire: “Smoke and mirrors: 37 bt out of 40 bt tonnes of CO2 emitted in 2023 due to burning FFs, but - like every COP beforehand - @COP29 pretends this isn't happening.”
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It's like they've reinvented Australia
November 23, 2024 at 10:01 PM
It's like they've reinvented Australia
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Bluesky is seeing a massive influx of activity following the US election results last week. ‣ @siliconrepublic.bsky.social #BlueSky
Bluesky surges past 15m users after US election results
The decentralised social media platform Bluesky now has nearly 15m users, gaining almost 400,000 since yesterday.
www.siliconrepublic.com
November 13, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Bluesky is seeing a massive influx of activity following the US election results last week. ‣ @siliconrepublic.bsky.social #BlueSky
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For those who are keeping track, that's named storm #18. Only 11 seasons going back to 1851 have seen that many storms. (Note: the last time tropical Atlantic temps were near this warm and we were headed toward La Nina--2005--the season extended into January)
Tropical Storm Sara has formed and is closing in on Central America where it is set to unleash disastrous flooding rain with "life-threatening" impact.
Tropical Storm Sara forms in the Caribbean and heads toward ‘life-threatening’ impact with Central America | CNN
The National Hurricane Center is also asking residents of the eastern Gulf Coast, including Florida, to monitor the storm closely since it has the potential to reach the US.
cnn.it
November 14, 2024 at 8:54 PM
For those who are keeping track, that's named storm #18. Only 11 seasons going back to 1851 have seen that many storms. (Note: the last time tropical Atlantic temps were near this warm and we were headed toward La Nina--2005--the season extended into January)
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If you learn anything today, it should be this:
We're burning more fossil fuels and releasing more fossil fuel CO₂ than ever. Despite what people had hoped, anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have not peaked.
To stay below +1.5°C of global warming, we're supposed to cut emissions by 50% by 2030. 🥲
We're burning more fossil fuels and releasing more fossil fuel CO₂ than ever. Despite what people had hoped, anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have not peaked.
To stay below +1.5°C of global warming, we're supposed to cut emissions by 50% by 2030. 🥲
Combining the slower growth in fossil CO2 emissions & slow decline in LUC emissions, means that total CO2 emissions are close to a plateau over the last decade.
Though, with a rise in fossil emissions & forest fires partly fuelled by El Niño, total emissions are estimated to rise 2% in 2024.
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Though, with a rise in fossil emissions & forest fires partly fuelled by El Niño, total emissions are estimated to rise 2% in 2024.
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November 13, 2024 at 12:45 PM
If you learn anything today, it should be this:
We're burning more fossil fuels and releasing more fossil fuel CO₂ than ever. Despite what people had hoped, anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have not peaked.
To stay below +1.5°C of global warming, we're supposed to cut emissions by 50% by 2030. 🥲
We're burning more fossil fuels and releasing more fossil fuel CO₂ than ever. Despite what people had hoped, anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have not peaked.
To stay below +1.5°C of global warming, we're supposed to cut emissions by 50% by 2030. 🥲
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Instead of rushing the study on the environmental, climate, and national-security impacts of LNG, making the permitting pause permanent before Trump takes office, Biden is spending his time making sure that the sweet, sweet methane keeps flowing smoothly after he's gone.
Catastrophe.
Catastrophe.
November 13, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Instead of rushing the study on the environmental, climate, and national-security impacts of LNG, making the permitting pause permanent before Trump takes office, Biden is spending his time making sure that the sweet, sweet methane keeps flowing smoothly after he's gone.
Catastrophe.
Catastrophe.
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Here are the economic damages at 3.4C (!!) by country. Up to 28% annual losses in GDP for the most impacted. Catastrophic!! (Antarctica captures losses for island nations and other countries that don’t have resolution in the global map.) Even here damage functions are limited. Published in NCC.
November 8, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Here are the economic damages at 3.4C (!!) by country. Up to 28% annual losses in GDP for the most impacted. Catastrophic!! (Antarctica captures losses for island nations and other countries that don’t have resolution in the global map.) Even here damage functions are limited. Published in NCC.
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This is exactly what I argued about the campaigns themselves: that Trump offered a deep story and Harris defended institutions!
Here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
Hmm— two independent but converging takes — we must be right lolsob.
Here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
Hmm— two independent but converging takes — we must be right lolsob.
November 7, 2024 at 6:52 AM
This is exactly what I argued about the campaigns themselves: that Trump offered a deep story and Harris defended institutions!
Here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
Hmm— two independent but converging takes — we must be right lolsob.
Here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
Hmm— two independent but converging takes — we must be right lolsob.
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To wit:
November 7, 2024 at 8:42 PM
To wit:
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Video shows Elnur Soltanov, a chief executive of COP-29, planning to use the COP to drive "investment opportunities" in their state oil & gas company.
"We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," he said to the reporter posing as an investor.
The BBC has the story (link in next skeet).
"We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," he said to the reporter posing as an investor.
The BBC has the story (link in next skeet).
November 8, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Video shows Elnur Soltanov, a chief executive of COP-29, planning to use the COP to drive "investment opportunities" in their state oil & gas company.
"We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," he said to the reporter posing as an investor.
The BBC has the story (link in next skeet).
"We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," he said to the reporter posing as an investor.
The BBC has the story (link in next skeet).
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The Atlantic hurricane season is on track to eclipse the 160 mark for Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE). This will officially qualify 2024 as a "hyperactive" season. Notice how heavily backloaded the season became. Precisely why no one should ever declare a hurricane season "over" in September.
November 8, 2024 at 9:19 PM
The Atlantic hurricane season is on track to eclipse the 160 mark for Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE). This will officially qualify 2024 as a "hyperactive" season. Notice how heavily backloaded the season became. Precisely why no one should ever declare a hurricane season "over" in September.
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In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically.
rdcu.be/dbFbB
rdcu.be/dbFbB
Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative
Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.
www.nature.com
October 29, 2024 at 11:15 AM
In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically.
rdcu.be/dbFbB
rdcu.be/dbFbB
Here are the economic damages at 3.4C (!!) by country. Up to 28% annual losses in GDP for the most impacted. Catastrophic!! (Antarctica captures losses for island nations and other countries that don’t have resolution in the global map.) Even here damage functions are limited. Published in NCC.
November 8, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Here are the economic damages at 3.4C (!!) by country. Up to 28% annual losses in GDP for the most impacted. Catastrophic!! (Antarctica captures losses for island nations and other countries that don’t have resolution in the global map.) Even here damage functions are limited. Published in NCC.
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Trump’s transition team for climate and the environment has reportedly prepared drastic changes, including "eliminating every office in every agency working to end the pollution that disproportionately affects poor communities"
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/c...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/c...
November 8, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Trump’s transition team for climate and the environment has reportedly prepared drastic changes, including "eliminating every office in every agency working to end the pollution that disproportionately affects poor communities"
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/c...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/c...
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The CEO of COP29 talking to a fake investment group on a video call, promising to arrange deals between them and SOCAR, Azerbaijan's state-owned oil and gas company during the upcoming climate conference:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 8, 2024 at 9:05 PM
The CEO of COP29 talking to a fake investment group on a video call, promising to arrange deals between them and SOCAR, Azerbaijan's state-owned oil and gas company during the upcoming climate conference:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The severe losses in GDP by country as a result of Climate Change at 3.4 degrees (graphic). Total global damages over $610 TRILLION to 2100, or a COVID sized economic shock *every year* on average for the next 80 years. END FOSSIL FUELS NOW! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
December 16, 2023 at 11:19 PM
The severe losses in GDP by country as a result of Climate Change at 3.4 degrees (graphic). Total global damages over $610 TRILLION to 2100, or a COVID sized economic shock *every year* on average for the next 80 years. END FOSSIL FUELS NOW! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere over the past three months! 😳Data from data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
December 16, 2023 at 11:33 PM
Temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere over the past three months! 😳Data from data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
The severe losses in GDP by country as a result of Climate Change at 3.4 degrees (graphic). Total global damages over $610 TRILLION to 2100, or a COVID sized economic shock *every year* on average for the next 80 years. END FOSSIL FUELS NOW! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
December 16, 2023 at 11:19 PM
The severe losses in GDP by country as a result of Climate Change at 3.4 degrees (graphic). Total global damages over $610 TRILLION to 2100, or a COVID sized economic shock *every year* on average for the next 80 years. END FOSSIL FUELS NOW! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...